# Senior Staff Software Engineer, API

Hiring organization: [Menlo Ventures Portfolio](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/menlo-ventures-portfolio)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/7efa945b-c01f-4eb1-b502-d0377c3fac79

Listed on Menlo Ventures Portfolio's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Seniority: Senior Staff
- Location: New York, NY
- Salary: 405000 – 485000 USD per year

## Summary

Anthropic seeks a senior technical leader to own the strategic direction and execution of their Claude API platform, working across multiple engineering teams to scale reliable access to their AI models. This role suits someone with deep distributed systems expertise and a track record of driving large-scale platform initiatives through influence and technical excellence.

_Our summary, not Menlo Ventures Portfolio's wording._

## Skills named

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Datadog, Firebase Firestore, Grafana, Kubernetes, Microsoft Azure, PostgreSQL, Prometheus, Python, Rust

## Required

- 12+ years of engineering experience at Staff or Senior Staff level
- Demonstrated ability to shape technical strategy for large-scale API or distributed systems platforms
- Expertise in distributed systems and API architecture
- Ability to lead through influence and quality of thinking without formal authority
- Strong communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences

## Nice to have

- Experience integrating frontier AI capabilities
- Product instincts for API design
- Familiarity with feature flagging systems

Apply on Menlo Ventures Portfolio's site: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jobs/5134895008